Butte semi-weekly miner., 1887-01-15


and spoke well for 1886.
Lieut.. Brett, OF the United States Army
will marry Miss Lena Wallace, of Helena
before the moon is like it now is
There was freight wreck near Cana
night before last which caused the delay Q
two hours IN yesterdays mails.
Miss Florence Barker will remain il
Butte for some six or eight weeks. She i
the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Carter Barker.
F. E. Bunney is no longer at the depot
in the service of the railroad company
He is now with the Anaconda Company:
The working gang" of city prisoners
with shovels at carry" were marched
from pillar to post yesterday clearing tn
| streets.
The stone that the "brick" told OF "gal
and stone" is not the stone that the boy
David threw at a giant. The game wal
smaller.
| Fourteen thousand and four hundred
dollars was the value of the nine bars O.
Moulton ore shipped by the Pacific Express
yesterday.
w. F. Furey, representing w. B. bod
bridge, OF Anaconda, is in town. Mr.. Furey
knows Anaconda we'll and will frequently
be in this city.
"Ten-Cent Hamlet" is the stage name ol
the Dutch actor who tried to make tragedy
plays in Montana. 1t will be "ten cent
show at all events.
The senior partner-A. Sands of the
firm Of Sands & Beyce, will be in Butte
day after tomorrow, Providence and the
trains permitting.
Mr.. Kartofsky-Uncle Sam-will leave for
Helena in a few days to engage in business
and to make it his future home, his health
not being good here.
Mr.. Mcleod has taken the contract for
building the bridges over the various
gulches on the Walkerville railroad from
A. w. McCune. If weather permits work
will begin Monday next.
We are informed that the revival meet
ings at the Presbyterian Church are awak-
ening quite an interest and the attendance
is constantly increasing.
The newly appointed postal clerk be-
tween Ogden and Butte-Captain Charley
C. Cochran-wilI reach the scene OF his fu-
ture labors this evening.
Will the party who took d pair of lady's
overshoes through mistake at the Entire
Nous Club dance last evening please leave
them at this office and get their own.
The Government has ordered an lnspec-
tor to visit Butte and Helena in regard to
the immediate establishment OF the free
letter delivery, and to report at once.
Tomorrow night, at Virginia City. G. C.
Morrisey and James Harkinge will fight to
a finish for 500 side. Pretty cheap,
but the finish can be in criminals cell.
Rev. Couey's talk to the people at the
union service the Presbyterian Church
started several to the praying bench. Rev.
Frost did equally as good work last night.
Chairman Hall has visited the bridge
near the Colorado Smelter, to which The
MINER called attention, and ordered il and |
ts approa ches to be at once put in repair.
Toney Wise and Ed. Morlin were buried |
by q 1OO-foot snow slide near Cinpebar. |
Their bodies will be found, perhaps, when |
winter has ceased to linger in Miss Springs |
ap.
District Assembly No. SO, Knights OF |
Labor, will meet again in Helena July 9th |
If this year. The session held in Helena /
his week was significant and representa-
i've.
Somebody cut the hose yesterday. The
nan who looks after the fire apparatus
vas hard at work getting it in repair.
There is a healthier place than Butte for
he man who Gu: that hose.
John Foley, chief engineer at the Moulton
niue, returned yesterday after an absence
t several weeks, visiting friends in Pied
1ont. West Virginia. johnnie says he is
lad to get back to the boys at Walkerville.
The MINER is not fighting little children
'ho 'go sled-riding,'' but is voicing the
ishes OF adults who have the good OF the
tile children at heart. The parents OF
hese little ones viii bear out this state
tent.
One of the happiest holiday visits was ]
lade by Rod. Davidson, among his folks {
t Chattanooga, Tennessee. There are
lril!ing memories connected with that f
OWN, and many unseen scars could tell OF
ivouac and battle.
Somebody stole an Angora goat robe
angling as sign in front OF Babcocks last | ,
FternooD. 1t is gray robe. lined with Y
ID or gray. There " ere two robes used as
gns, and the employees do not know
hich one was lined red, or which gray.
The Chain gang street worker who
tipped his irons yesterday and escaped, has !
1t. at this writing, been reca ptured. The G
cape was well managed by the fellow, and F
, blame, seemingly, can be attached to .
le supervisor of the working crew.
1t cost Butte more to feed the city pris- J
,ers per month than the expenses incurred =
: the street and alley committee OF the q
uncil amounted to. The policy of max G
g the "vags" work on the streets saves
st that much expense to the taxpayers
Marshal jolly scored another victory c
sterday in sending the fellow. Harri .on C
no stole pair OF shoes from the Sands & c
oyce store front, to 6O-day time for the G
,preciation of the fact that "honestv is .
e best policy 1t is probable he has N
led both. NJ
The Northern Pacific passenger conduc-
rs now receive $11O monthly: passenger
akemen $50, freight conductors will e
reafter be paid cents per train mile in 8,
ead of $S5 per month, and freight brake c
en- cents per train mile instead of $50 R
onthly salary. G
The children had not learned at midnight
e real meaning of the City Councils order 8,
to coasting. The reporter caught sled b
tn two little girls aboard, between Broad 81
~ and Park streets, near the school D
use, just in time to prevent a mishap =
a lady we'll known in this city. P.
The Anaconda review says, in connection Ii
tn the MINERS action about the pawn
okers' frauds, that it lis deserving of <
aise for unearthing the frauds which the "a
have been practicing." The v
NER has done good deed in this connec- ss
N. and it will boldly continue such ex- Tt
sures,